This country loves its hustlers and slick operators, but it's hard work that gets you through the rough patches
By Garrison Keillor Feb 9, 2010
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Republicans have decided that defeating Obama is more important than passing healthcare
By Garrison Keillor
January 26, 2010
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A murky healthcare bill that no one can explain emerged from the intricate web of compromises. Must be dangerous!
By Garrison Keillor
January 19, 2010
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There is no better place to learn the delicate ballet of social skill than in a big city
By Garrison Keillor
January 12, 2010
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Forget the mediocre food. It's the village life we love about a cruise -- the people watching, the eavesdropping
By Garrison Keillor
January 5, 2010
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In warm Southern climes, one man's warrior view of the Great Giver of Truth gives way to a hedonistic pantheism
By Garrison Keillor
December 29, 2009
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In a 10th Avenue deli, an elegant girl from the prairie manages a herd of damaged boys with grace and good humor
By Garrison Keillor
December 22, 2009
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It's a Christian holiday, dammit, and it's plain wrong to rewrite "Silent Night." Unitarians, I'm talking to you!
By Garrison Keillor
December 15, 2009
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If you're tired of enforced joyfulness, go to New York: Christmas has some opposition there
By Garrison Keillor
December 8, 2009
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The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare
By Garrison Keillor
December 1, 2009
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On Thanksgiving we gather among our kin who know us a little too well, and put civility to a true test
By Garrison Keillor
November 24, 2009
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Still lifes of flowers? Why bother. The true calling of an artist is to paint the naked female form
By Garrison Keillor
November 17, 2009
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The way to fight Republicans is to make them think you like them. It'll scare them into passing the thing
By Garrison Keillor
November 10, 2009
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Some people thrive on the predictable, others keep rewriting their lives. A healthy society needs both
By Garrison Keillor
November 3, 2009
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We don't admire quitters, but no one wants to be the last person to believe in a mission, either
By Garrison Keillor
October 27, 2009
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That's why I seek out the young and ebullient. They don't worry about interest rates because they have no savings
By Garrison Keillor
October 20, 2009
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Praying the country will slip into chaos, to make Obama look bad, is not a good place for a political party to be
By Garrison Keillor
October 14, 2009
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Even people who oppose regulation and don't mind manufacturing hamburger contaminated by E. coli deserve healthcare
By Garrison Keillor
October 7, 2009
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Let them make do with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Meanwhile, the money we save will pay off the deficit
By Garrison Keillor
September 30, 2009
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It's as American as rock 'n' roll, but there's a price for being an angry jerk
By Garrison Keillor
September 23, 2009
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It was pretty clear how lucky I was to be walking out of that hospital relatively unscathed
By Garrison Keillor
September 16, 2009
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Want empathy? Send weepy pet parents to town hall meetings waving photos of kittycats in need of new kidneys
By Garrison Keillor
September 2, 2009
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A few puffs of smoke from the other side and you're ready for martyrdom? Get a grip
By Garrison Keillor
August 26, 2009
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Like many an English major, I go to the motherland for the language. I am never disappointed
By Garrison Keillor
August 19, 2009
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Millions of people have discovered the joys of seeing yourself in print. Unfortunately, no one's making a dime
By Garrison Keillor
August 12, 2009
Get busy, Democrats
Let the uninsured die
Arousing alarm is easy, teaching is tough
Social separation breeds contempt
How I spent my winter vacation
God changes with the weather
My Christmas vision
Don't mess with Christmas
'Tis the season to be grumpy
Republicans play Scrooge, minus the change of heart
The dinner of all dinners
Staking out my aesthetic
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